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• The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.

  Sue Grafton

  Girl, Writing, Creative Juices

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• If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.

  Paul Haggis

  Dream, Fighting, Boxing

  "Million Dollar Baby". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Can't stand it. Too many amps, too much volume, it's just flat-out ear assault. Speedy guitars leave me not feeling detached but physically upset. When you think of all the subtleties that were built into the guitar and amps for you to discover they completely cover the whole lot with a rack of effects. The guitar doesn't need that.

  Jeff Beck

  Thinking, Guitar, Upset

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• The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young Blanche. In a historic sense she never lived, but she received the breath of life from my internal spirit, and she cannot be detached from the origin, which is hers. Born in the profound horror of a time darkened by the signs of destiny, this figure arose before me in some way as the embodiment of the mortal agony of an era going totally to its ruin.

  Gertrud von Le Fort

  Destiny, Agony, Profound

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• It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

  Arthur Rothstein

  Views, Photographer, Cold

  Arthur Rothstein (1965). “Photojournalism: Pictures for Magazines and Newspapers”

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• I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

  C. Wright Mills

  Trying, Claims, Objectives

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• Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.

  Theophile Gautier

  Travel, Horse, Moon

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• The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.

  Antonin Artaud

  Art, Ideas, Leisure

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.77, Grove Press

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• If you try too much to change the outside, that shows that you are still attached. If a man tries to be detached, it shows attachment. Why bother about detachment if you are not attached? If a man escapes from women, it shows that sex is still the obsession. Otherwise, why escape from women if you are not obsessed?

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Men, Trying

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• True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Sacrifice, Soul

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• Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

  George Iles

  Fall, Science, Wind

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• Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

  Alex Kapranos

  Fashion, Media, Musical

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• You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it objectively. Like watching from the audience a play you already know by heart.

  George Rodger

  Heart, Play, Affinity

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• It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change. That’s why these Web sites are responsible. Just the fact that somebody can be sexually exploited and violated, and the first thought that crosses somebody’s mind is to make a profit from it. It’s so beyond me. I just can’t imagine being that detached from humanity. I can’t imagine being that thoughtless and careless and so empty inside.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Law, Humanity, Mind

  "Cover Exclusive: Jennifer Lawrence Calls Photo Hacking a ‘Sex Crime’". www.vanityfair.com. October 7, 2014.

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• Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Hands, Waiting

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Hope: A Holy Promise”, p.63, Discovery House

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• I lived in Peckham for the first 12 years of my life and then my mum and dad decided they really didn't want to bring up their children there. So they saved up money and bought a house in Plumstead, semi-detached, three bedrooms.

  Tinie Tempah

  Children, Dad, Years

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• Christianity is Christ because there isn't anything else. There is no atonement that somehow can be detached from who the Lord Jesus is. There is no grace that can be attached to you transferred from Him. All there is, is Christ and your soul.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Jesus, Grace, Soul

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• Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Suffering Of Others, Safety

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.292, Harper Collins

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• A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freud’s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious, detached and authoritarian personality, and led to the betrayal of his mentor, Josef Breuer. Breger’s analysis exposes a fascinating paradox: Freud both invented psychoanalysis and impoverished its development. A must-read for everyone interested in how ideas can change the world.

  Brenda Webster

  Dream, Betrayal, Book

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• True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.

  Asger Jorn

  Lying, Expression, Faithful

  "Aftermath France, 1945-54 : New Images of Man : An Exhibition" by Germain Viatte, Sarah Wilson, (p. 107), 1982.

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• Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs.

  Edward Vilga

  Sex, Cost, Casual

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• Being 'poor in spirit' (a Christian virtue) means being detached from things - being able to possess goods without being possessed by them. It meansputting people ahead of possessions - and seeing material things only as instruments for serving God and the needs of others.

  James Stenson

  Christian, Mean, People

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• There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and unseizable as a jellyfish, yet able to create an independent world that is both more recondite and more instantaneously convincing than the world one knew before.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Reading, Independent, Two

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• I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  World, Feels

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• One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to project one's own image or fantasies. In intimacy, one respectfully interacts with the other, invites the penetration of the other, enters into a common effort, and then the strange and distinct contours of self and other become more apparent.

  Deena Metzger

  Self, Effort, Strange

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